Music City Bowl

[Rickster]

Did I read a headline correctly that Altmeyer is going to play? At least it'll be watchable. Hopefully TN doesn't have a good D line and make Luke run for his life all game.

[ChiefSTL]

Yeah, he's playing. The notable opt outs are Gabe Jacas and JC Davis. Hate that Davis is sitting out, not sure who will be at LT. Might need to keep a TE in more to help block. Tenn has a good offense on paper, I'm hoping the D is ready to play.

[Rickster]

Man I'm going to miss Altmeyer. He's the best QB we've had since Kurt Kittner.

Very entertaining game, and the Illini crowd sure showed out. Lunney definitely got better as the year went on, some of those play calls on key 3rd downs were brilliant. If that reverse throw back from Beatty to Altmeyer had worked it would've been epic.

I can't believe the kicker is going into the portal...do kickers even get NIL money?????

[ChiefSTL]

Man I'm going to miss Altmeyer. He's the best QB we've had since Kurt Kittner.

Very entertaining game, and the Illini crowd sure showed out. Lunney definitely got better as the year went on, some of those play calls on key 3rd downs were brilliant. If that reverse throw back from Beatty to Altmeyer had worked it would've been epic.

I can't believe the kicker is going into the portal...do kickers even get NIL money?????

Did you see some of the terrible kicking in the college playoffs? Olano has a couple of the highest paying schools recruiting him, Texas A&M and Ohio State. He's gonna get paid. The part that pisses me off is apparently they've been talking to him/family for awhile now.

[Rickster]

Man I'm going to miss Altmeyer. He's the best QB we've had since Kurt Kittner.

Very entertaining game, and the Illini crowd sure showed out. Lunney definitely got better as the year went on, some of those play calls on key 3rd downs were brilliant. If that reverse throw back from Beatty to Altmeyer had worked it would've been epic.

I can't believe the kicker is going into the portal...do kickers even get NIL money?????

Did you see some of the terrible kicking in the college playoffs? Olano has a couple of the highest paying schools recruiting him, Texas A&M and Ohio State. He's gonna get paid. The part that pisses me off is apparently they've been talking to him/family for awhile now.

I mean, yeah...good kickers are not a dime a dozen even for power 4 teams. I get that. But man....I read he turned down double what he made in collective NIL this year, which was $750K. so he now gets more than $1.5 mil from Texas A&M. for 23 FG attempts / year. If you assume he's getting $2 mil now, at 23 figgies that's just under $87,000 per attempt.

if you have enough NIL money and budget to pay a kicker $87,000 each for a handful of figgies, that's a signal the system is a little out of whack.

[ChiefSTL]

Man I'm going to miss Altmeyer. He's the best QB we've had since Kurt Kittner.

Very entertaining game, and the Illini crowd sure showed out. Lunney definitely got better as the year went on, some of those play calls on key 3rd downs were brilliant. If that reverse throw back from Beatty to Altmeyer had worked it would've been epic.

I can't believe the kicker is going into the portal...do kickers even get NIL money?????

Did you see some of the terrible kicking in the college playoffs? Olano has a couple of the highest paying schools recruiting him, Texas A&M and Ohio State. He's gonna get paid. The part that pisses me off is apparently they've been talking to him/family for awhile now.

I mean, yeah...good kickers are not a dime a dozen even for power 4 teams. I get that. But man....I read he turned down double what he made in collective NIL this year, which was $750K. so he now gets more than $1.5 mil from Texas A&M. for 23 FG attempts / year. If you assume he's getting $2 mil now, at 23 figgies that's just under $87,000 per attempt.

if you have enough NIL money and budget to pay a kicker $87,000 each for a handful of figgies, that's a signal the system is a little out of whack.

Oh the system is broke for sure. Eventually I would think the teams that can't spend like the upper echelon are going to have donor's saying, what's the point in giving all this money if we still can't compete? Some type of cap system has to happen. I know there will still be shady things going on, but there's gotta be something to help level the playing field.

[Rickster]

Man I'm going to miss Altmeyer. He's the best QB we've had since Kurt Kittner.

Very entertaining game, and the Illini crowd sure showed out. Lunney definitely got better as the year went on, some of those play calls on key 3rd downs were brilliant. If that reverse throw back from Beatty to Altmeyer had worked it would've been epic.

I can't believe the kicker is going into the portal...do kickers even get NIL money?????

Did you see some of the terrible kicking in the college playoffs? Olano has a couple of the highest paying schools recruiting him, Texas A&M and Ohio State. He's gonna get paid. The part that pisses me off is apparently they've been talking to him/family for awhile now.

I mean, yeah...good kickers are not a dime a dozen even for power 4 teams. I get that. But man....I read he turned down double what he made in collective NIL this year, which was $750K. so he now gets more than $1.5 mil from Texas A&M. for 23 FG attempts / year. If you assume he's getting $2 mil now, at 23 figgies that's just under $87,000 per attempt.

if you have enough NIL money and budget to pay a kicker $87,000 each for a handful of figgies, that's a signal the system is a little out of whack.

Oh the system is broke for sure. Eventually I would think the teams that can't spend like the upper echelon are going to have donor's saying, what's the point in giving all this money if we still can't compete? Some type of cap system has to happen. I know there will still be shady things going on, but there's gotta be something to help level the playing field.

if you're an alumn and you write a check to your alma mater fully understanding/documented that it will go to an NIL fund the school will use to pay athletes, do you get to deduct that as a donation from either indiv or business taxes?

[ChiefSTL]

Man I'm going to miss Altmeyer. He's the best QB we've had since Kurt Kittner.

Very entertaining game, and the Illini crowd sure showed out. Lunney definitely got better as the year went on, some of those play calls on key 3rd downs were brilliant. If that reverse throw back from Beatty to Altmeyer had worked it would've been epic.

I can't believe the kicker is going into the portal...do kickers even get NIL money?????

Did you see some of the terrible kicking in the college playoffs? Olano has a couple of the highest paying schools recruiting him, Texas A&M and Ohio State. He's gonna get paid. The part that pisses me off is apparently they've been talking to him/family for awhile now.

I mean, yeah...good kickers are not a dime a dozen even for power 4 teams. I get that. But man....I read he turned down double what he made in collective NIL this year, which was $750K. so he now gets more than $1.5 mil from Texas A&M. for 23 FG attempts / year. If you assume he's getting $2 mil now, at 23 figgies that's just under $87,000 per attempt.

if you have enough NIL money and budget to pay a kicker $87,000 each for a handful of figgies, that's a signal the system is a little out of whack.

Oh the system is broke for sure. Eventually I would think the teams that can't spend like the upper echelon are going to have donor's saying, what's the point in giving all this money if we still can't compete? Some type of cap system has to happen. I know there will still be shady things going on, but there's gotta be something to help level the playing field.

if you're an alumn and you write a check to your alma mater fully understanding/documented that it will go to an NIL fund the school will use to pay athletes, do you get to deduct that as a donation from either indiv or business taxes?

I'm not sure, that's a good question.

[ChiefSTL]

Just when you think it can't get any crazier, enter Lane Kiffin to turn it up a notch. Demond Williams, QB for Washington, just signed a deal to stay with them last week. Apparently LSU is offering him a crazy amount of money, so now he's entered the transfer portal with the intent on signing with LSU. Washington is threatening to sue because of the signed contract. This is just nuts.

[FrankTheTank]

if you're an alumn and you write a check to your alma mater fully understanding/documented that it will go to an NIL fund the school will use to pay athletes, do you get to deduct that as a donation from either indiv or business taxes?

Schools have a separate payment portal for NIL money, but it is still considered a gift/donation to the University (or their Foundation) which is a 501c3 so it is tax deducible. Interesting thing is, an Athletic Director, or Associate, anyone involved is not supposed to be the go between, meaning they should not facilitate the donation. Example - Donor approaches the Athletic Director with a desire to donate $500,000 to the NIL, the AD will give him the NIL link/donor site, and that is it. IF the donor wants to meet with the athlete, they can, but a representative from the University is not allowed to be there. Now...I am SURE that never happens. ha ha ha ha ha

Anyways, I used to work at a D1 University and also slept in a Holiday Inn Express last night.

[Rickster]

if you're an alumn and you write a check to your alma mater fully understanding/documented that it will go to an NIL fund the school will use to pay athletes, do you get to deduct that as a donation from either indiv or business taxes?

Schools have a separate payment portal for NIL money, but it is still considered a gift/donation to the University (or their Foundation) which is a 501c3 so it is tax deducible. Interesting thing is, an Athletic Director, or Associate, anyone involved is not supposed to be the go between, meaning they should not facilitate the donation. Example - Donor approaches the Athletic Director with a desire to donate $500,000 to the NIL, the AD will give him the NIL link/donor site, and that is it. IF the donor wants to meet with the athlete, they can, but a representative from the University is not allowed to be there. Now...I am SURE that never happens. ha ha ha ha ha

Anyways, I used to work at a D1 University and also slept in a Holiday Inn Express last night.

so it seems to me, one quick, easy step towards a correction/balance is to remove any NIL contributions from deductible contributions. Public schools are a unit of government anyway, and don't technically have (c)3 status. So why do they often qualify to receive tax-deductible contributions at all?

To be fair, I'm not opposed to college athletes getting to share in the profits of their labor. It just seems out of whack and in need of a correction. If rich people want to spend money on better players to produce more wins for the university sports teams, fine. It's their money, but that should be treated as an investment, like a movie producer kicking in $$ to produce a movie. It should not be considered a charitable donation.